GV47 : The relationship between coaches’ servant leadership style with coach trust and performance of collegiate sport teams
Thesis > Central Library of Shahrood University > Physical Education > MSc > 2014
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Abstarct: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of coaches’ servant leadership style with coach trust and perceived sport performance among collegiate sport teams. The population of this study consisted of all plaxyers of boy and girl collegiate sport teams (N= 300) that participated in sport region 3 college, 220 completed questionnaires and were analyzed as examples. In order to data gathering used Servant Leadership Style (Hammermeister, et al., 2008), trust in coach (Zhang, 2004) and perceived team performance (Glenn, 2003) scales. To determine the content questionnaires validity was used of comments 10 professors in the field and Confirmatory factor analysis was used to determine validity. In order to determine the reliability of a pilot study was conducted on a group of 31 members of athletes; their reliability using Cronbach's alpha, have been reported respectively 0.94, 0.86 and 0.93. To test the hypotheses were used of Pearson correlation, factor analysis and structural equation. Findings indicated that servant leadership has positive and significant correlation with coach trust. Servant leadership has directly and indirectly a significant impact on the performance of athletes perceived, So that the trust coach plays the role of mediator in this model and has a direct and significant impact on sports performance. Endogenous Variables’ R-Square indicated that respectively 98% and 28% of the variance of coach trust and perceived sport performance is explained by exogenous variables. Finally, all indicators model were favorable. The results show that athletes with coaches servant leadership style, show higher levels of confidence in the coach. Also this leadership style can improve athletic performance.
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#Leadership style #Coach trust #College sport
Keeping place: Central Library of Shahrood University
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Keeping place: Central Library of Shahrood University
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